[jira] [Updated] (LUCENE-4386) Query parser should generate FieldValueFilter for pure wildcard terms to boost query performance

["David Smiley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Smiley updated LUCENE-4386:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 4.7)
                   4.8

> Query parser should generate FieldValueFilter for pure wildcard terms to boost query performance
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-4386
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4386
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/queryparser
>    Affects Versions: 4.0-BETA
>            Reporter: Jack Krupansky
>             Fix For: 4.8
>
>
> In theory, a simple pure wildcard query (a single asterisk) is an inefficient way to select all documents that have any value in a field. Rather than users having to work around this issue by adding a separate boolean "has" field, it would be better to have the query parser directly generate the most efficient Lucene query for detecting all documents that have any value for a specified field. According to the discussion over on LUCENE-4376, the FieldValueFilter is the proper solution.
> Proposed solution:
> QueryParserBase.getPrefixQuery could detect when the query is a pure wildcard (a single asterisk) and then generate a FieldValueFilter instead of a PrefixQuery. My understanding from LUCENE-4376 is that the following would work:
> {code}
> new ConstantScoreQuery(new FieldValueFilter(fieldname, false))
> {code}
> Oh, and the check for whether "leading wildcard" is enabled would need to be bypassed for this case.
> I still think it would be better to have PrefixQuery perform this optimization internally so that all apps would benefit, but this should be sufficient to address the main concern.
> This improvement would improve the classic Lucene query parser and other query parsers based on it, including edismax. There might be other query parsers which won't see the impact of this change, but they can be updated separately.
> How much performance benefit? Unknown, but supposedly significant. The goal is simply to have a simple pure wildcard be the obvious tool to select fields that have a value in a field.



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